The FBI was obsessed with Martin Luther King Jr. from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968. King was only 39 when he was killed on April 4, 1968, having spent 12 years—almost a third of ...

The new documentary MLK/FBI explores J. Edgar Hoover’s relentless surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr., which would become a complicated boon to historians.

FBI documents from the 1960s allege Martin Luther King Jr. had affairs with 40 women and stood by as a friend raped a woman, a new report said.

FBI trainees get day-long lesson about questionable probe of Martin Luther King Jr., including a frank review into wiretapping, harassment, abuse of power and racially-motivated double standard ...

Last year, an explosive trove of alleged information about the private life of Martin Luther King, Jr. became available for the first time in written FBI reports and surveillance summaries ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., for a period of 13 years, was one of the most scrutinized and filmed figures in American history, from the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 to his assassination in ...

Martin Luther King Jr. was a man who had a "tremendous amount of burdens he had to deal with, both politically, socially and personally," says MLK/FBI director Sam Pollard. Courtesy of IFC Films ...

A New Film Details the FBI’s Relentless Pursuit of Martin Luther King Jr. Smithsonian scholar says the time is ripe to examine the man’s complexities for a more accurate and more inspirational ...

The opening images of the documentary “MLK/FBI” include footage from the 1963 march on the Washington Mall that, ... Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of ...

*The extent to which the FBI spent to spy on Martin Luther King Jr. is explored in the new documentary “MLK/FBI” by director Sam Pollard. The film is based on a 1981 book by historian David ...